November 21, 2023

Goodbye. Hello.

 This is a very short notice to let you know that the blog's moved elsewhere, in another format, which I hope to be slightly more organized :)

Thank you all for your support on this platform over the years!

June 6, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 52

 

Happy 🐪 Day! Well, it's been a year since I first started launched these Wednesday Writing Prompts. I hope you've found them fun, interesting, and inspiring.

Here's this week's writing prompt, and the final prompt I'm planning on sharing for now:

1.      To get over your addiction, your doctor’s sent you to group meetings. And in one of those meetings, you’re told to each say two things for which you’re grateful.


May 30, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 51

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      After a long and difficult year, you decide to write your best friend—whom you haven’t seen or heard from in a while—the best and worst that has happened to you, including your future dreams.


May 23, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 50

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      As a farmer you’re worried sick because your crop’s close to dying from the drought, when, at long last, the rain comes.


May 16, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 49

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      Visiting a foreign country, you get robbed blind, and, unable to speak the language or find your way again, you end up inside a small church.


May 9, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 48

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      Your car breaks down one day on your way back from getting groceries. And the only one who comes to your help is a homeless person. You strike up a conversation, and end up staying much longer than anticipated.


May 2, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 47

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      Your parents signed you up for a special bootcamp to get you off your video game addiction.


April 25, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 46

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’re five, and you watch your father leave you and your family for good, without even saying goodbye.


April 18, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 45

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      Your nosy neighbor is found dead, body halfway up your driveway.


April 11, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 44

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You get your first paycheck, and use it to get yourself that latest companion robot you’ve been wanting to get. It’s second-hand, but you don’t mind. The instructions read: Turn me on and select your preferred settings. And in a sloppy handwritten scrawl, you read below: Don’t trust it, it lies.


April 4, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 43

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’re lying on a hospital bed, and you know your time’s close. Your family comes to visit, and you find your shiest grandchild’s left alone in the room with you, crying.


March 28, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 42

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      As you go around picking up used cans around the streets to cash in on the recycling money, you find one inhabited by a genie, who grants you three wishes so you won’t have his house scrapped.


March 21, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 41

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You and your spouse decided to have your baby gene-edited so it would be perfect at birth and thereby get the best possible life. However, when the child’s born, you realize that the lab in charge of the editing made one terrible mistake.


March 14, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 40

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      Surfing early in the morning, a seal suddenly jumps onto your board, and you realize there’s a shark nearby.


March 7, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 39

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      Working at a pet store, you find one late evening that, after an exotic fish bit you when you were trying to clean its aquarium, you can suddenly understand what the animals are saying. And they’re not happy there.


February 28, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 38

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’re about to file for divorce, when you find out that your soon-to-be ex has won the lottery.


February 21, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 37

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      Another backbreaking day at the mine, your health’s no good, but you can’t leave the job either as you’ve got to take care of your ailing mother and three siblings. But as you crawl down another shaft, you fall onto an ancient tomb.


February 14, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 36

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’ve received your first love confession in your life ever. The trouble is, the note isn’t signed, and you didn’t see who dropped it in your bag.


February 7, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 35

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’ve won a ticket for a free five-day trip on a luxury zeppelin.


January 31, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 34

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’re a ranger at a wildlife sanctuary, tasked with protecting a young tribe of elephants. And as the day sets, you catch a number of tire tracks that don’t belong to your team’s vehicles. The poachers are back. And you’re all alone to defend your wards.


January 24, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 33

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      As a Wastewater Treatment Consultant, your job isn’t always rosy. It only gets worse when you realize that someone’s been dumping bones in the sewers. And most aren’t human.


January 17, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 32

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      As you come back from a night out with your friends, you decide to take a detour to relieve your full bladder out of sight, and witness the execution of a person by the mafia.


January 10, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 31

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’re following your phone’s directions to a bar to meet up your colleagues for happy hour, and find yourself instead walking into a strange lounge that’s outside the space-time continuum.


January 3, 2023

Wednesday Writing Prompt 30

Happy 🐪 Day! 

Here's this week's writing prompt:

1.      You’re a realtor and have to sell a house you know is haunted.